On-time to bed; awoken in wee hours with strobing, sniffling, sighing; read some book (still "The City We Became"); snoozed ~40 min past alarm protein cocoa 29g Long wait for chx nuggets so they gave me 6? extra. ~39g, still 28g left over for later or tomorrow Clifton gym 12:44 ~ 1:?? p hypertrophy 3 circuits No caffeine boost, didn't feel like pushing rep limits on last circuit. Several machines need maint: seat adjustment pins, lat pulldown thigh pad, weird squeaky shoulder press etc. ... (...more)

on-time to bed; wake ~6
weigh-in 217#
protein cocoa 29g
smoked kipper _
pistachios + edamame 16g

10a GTKY chat w/Beacon Hill

Look, mister Frodo ... MORE lembas bread fried rice

Went to bed a bit late and a bit polluted; woke by ~6a anyway. protein cocoa, caf, creatine+; wait 30m for vitamin+ and oo shower, fresh clothes Figure out how to get the somewhat annual teeth cleaning and tumor remediation done. Tinton Falls RBVH has the dental specialist fried rice The Invisible Man (2020, Elizabeth Moss) Popcorn extra toasty but not ruined at 3 minutes in Lyndhurst microwave. +m+m's * * * TIL Lamart's plant manager Ray Van Houten stayed there until retirement, ... (...more)

pack and settle details before housesitting stint

Spuntino's / Clifton
Cherry manhattan with cinnamon-infused maraschino cherry; a French shiraz. Both "A"
First time trying arancini : Sauce was great but there are better vehicles for sauce.
Shrimp scampi over mafalde: A+, super flavorful. I wish I could do scampi nearly that well.
Amaretto digestif and a little yodeling.
Bulleit nightcap.
Good times.

The term "stage" in the fine dining industry originates from the French word "stagiaire," meaning trainee or intern, and refers to a cook or chef working briefly for free in another kitchen to learn new techniques and cuisines. Ultimately the etymolgy traces to Latin, drawing on the sense of * * * In high-school pre-calc (we called it EMA for "Elementary Mathematical Analysis" and my teacher was Mrs Burden), I was briefly obsessed with a framework for identifying coordinates on a sphere for any arbitr... (...more)